Improvement in cotton-gins



W. McLENDON.

Cotton Gin.

No. 26,604. Patented Dec. .27, 1859.

PETERS. Phnwuxno mr. Wnhlnglon. 0. c.

' provement in Cotton-Grins; and I do hereby w. MCLENDON, orGREEINVILLE, GEORGIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN COTTON-GI NS.

Specification forming part of LettersPatcnt No. 26,604, dated December27, 1859.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM McLEnDo of the county of Meriwether andState of Georgia, have invented a new anduseful Imdeclare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, referencebeing had to the annexed drawings, formingpart of this specification, inthe several figures of which similar characters of reference denote thesame parts.

Figure 1 is a vertical section perpendicular to the axis of the saws.Fig. 2 is a top View showing the end of the beveled roll-box. Fig. 3 isa front View of the gin.

This improvement has reference to the rollboX of cotton-gins; and itsnature consists in beveling the ends of the roll-box, so that the cottonwill expand on the outside, and thus cause the saw to pass through it atdifferent points every turn.

In the drawings, A represents the r0l1;box; b, the ribs; S, the saw; S,the shaft of the saws, and d e a line showing from where the beveling ofthe roll-box commences. Let the ends of roll-box A be of the samethickness as far I back as the line d e, and then} beveled, as repre- Isented. by the figures 1 and 2 in Fig. 2, until. 1. j

at an edge at the back of the roll-box. (Itepre sented by the letter F.)It is intended that these ends A should cover the outerribs,so I thatthe first saw will. pass so near thernas'to; I

prevent, when in operation,the clogging with seed. The effect of thisbevelingof the heads ;i of the roll-box is to make it atthe outerqsidejI from the saw wider than at the saw, so that I the roll of cotton willexpand on the outside, l

causing the saw to pass through it at a differ? ent place each turn,which will make more; lint, and it will not be soniuch out to pieces las in the usual gins, and there being nofspace I between the outer sawsand theends of the j 1 will not be liable to choke roll-box, the ginwith seed.

I claim Beveling the JOHN J. HUSSEY, BENJAMIN POWELL. I

ends of the roll-box from the 3 saws, substantially as and for thepurposes 7:

WILL A MQLENDO

